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Demand for Gorkhaland: Hill parties launch Bharatiya Gorkhaland Sangharsh Samiti
1 year, 11 months ago

Demand for Gorkhaland: Hill parties launch Bharatiya Gorkhaland Sangharsh Samiti

Hindustan Times  

Gorkha Janmukti Morcha president Bimal Gurung, Gorkha organisations and other political parties in the hill areas of north Bengal in a meeting in Kalimpong on Monday announced the formation of Bharatiya Gorkhaland Sangharsh Samiti – a committee to spearhead their demand for a Gorkhaland. Gorkha Janmukti Morcha president Bimal Gurung He said that the committee will not have allegiance to …

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North Bengal New Kurukshetra for TMC, BJP; Mamata Banerjee, Abhishek Continue Visits to Woo Locals
2 years, 5 months ago

North Bengal New Kurukshetra for TMC, BJP; Mamata Banerjee, Abhishek Continue Visits to Woo Locals

News 18  

The Trinamool Congress’s target is clear — North Bengal. While West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is on a three-day visit to the region starting Monday, TMC National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, too, will visit the area for a day. TMC leader Sukhendu Shekhar Roy said: “This time, July 21 event will break all previous records.” THE GTA The GTA …

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Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar announces special CAG audit of Gorkhaland Territorial Administration
3 years, 5 months ago

Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar announces special CAG audit of Gorkhaland Territorial Administration

India Today  

Alleging that corruption persists in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration, West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday called for a special audit by the CAG on the accounts of the autonomous body. After his week long stay in North Bengal Governor Dhankhar will be reaching Bagdogra Airport on June 28 at 11.30 AM and will reach Kolkata by flight at 1.30 …

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How Movements to Divide West Bengal Multiplied over the Years and Mostly Fizzled Out
3 years, 6 months ago

How Movements to Divide West Bengal Multiplied over the Years and Mostly Fizzled Out

News 18  

After 74 years of a split that spurred one of the largest migrations in human history, there is a buzz in Bengal of another rupture with political leaders mainly from the Bharatiya Janata Party demanding North Bengal as a separate union territory and Jangalmahal to be carved out as a new state. On June 13, BJP MP from Alipurduar John …

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West Bengal Elections 2021 | Cooch Behar killings turning point, BJP to be routed from north Bengal: Bimal Gurung
3 years, 8 months ago

West Bengal Elections 2021 | Cooch Behar killings turning point, BJP to be routed from north Bengal: Bimal Gurung

The Hindu  

Asserting that Saturdays firing by the CISF in Cooch Behar, which claimed four lives, would prove to be a "turning point" in Bengal polls, Bimal Gurung, the chief of one of the two GJM factions, claimed that the BJP would face the wrath of voters in the remaining four phases of polling in the northern part of the State. Mr. …

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Game-changing phase in West Bengal
3 years, 8 months ago

Game-changing phase in West Bengal

The Hindu  

THE third, fourth and fifth phases of the eight-phase West Bengal Assembly election on April 6, April 10 and April 17 will witness some interesting battles in the ruling Trinamool Congress’ strongholds and in constituencies that are now considered the Bharatiya Janata Party’s bastion. As 120 of the 294 Assembly constituencies go to the polls in these phases, it is …

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Trinamool backs former Gorkha strongman Bimal Gurung for Darjeeling foray, BJP sniffs an opportunity
3 years, 10 months ago

Trinamool backs former Gorkha strongman Bimal Gurung for Darjeeling foray, BJP sniffs an opportunity

India Today  

In October 2017, West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh was chased through the streets and partymen accompanying him thrashed allegedly by Gorkha Janmukti Morcha activists in Darjeeling. In Gurung’s absence, Mamata stitched up an alliance with the Binay Tamang faction of GJM, and BJP with the powerful Gorkha National Liberation Front. Photo: India Today In fact, other North Bengal districts …

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Mission North Bengal: How Mamata plans to wrestle back BJP strongholds
3 years, 10 months ago

Mission North Bengal: How Mamata plans to wrestle back BJP strongholds

India Today  

It was from the northern districts that BJP started its foray into West Bengal. North Bengal, comprising the districts of Cooch Behar, Alipurduar, Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Malda, North Dinajpur and South Dinajpur, accounts for 54 out of the total 294 assembly seats in the state. No wonder then that chief minister Mamata Banerjee, during her last tour of North Bengal …

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BJP gets a boost in Darjeeling with a clutch of GJM leaders joining it
3 years, 11 months ago

BJP gets a boost in Darjeeling with a clutch of GJM leaders joining it

Hindustan Times  

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday received a shot in the arm in the Darjeeling hills when some leaders of its former partner, the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, joined the saffron camp. BJP had been looking for local support in the Darjeeling hills after the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha switched allegiance to West Bengal's ruling party, TMC. The BJP which won the …

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A twist in the politics of the Darjeeling hills
4 years, 1 month ago

A twist in the politics of the Darjeeling hills

The Hindu  

THE reconciliation between the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal and Bimal Gurung, the erstwhile undisputed leader of the Darjeeling hills of north Bengal, has given a new twist to the volatile and unpredictable politics of the hills. In 2017, Gurung fled the Darjeeling hills after the Mamata Banerjee government slapped a number of criminal charges, including those under the …

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Shikha Mukerjee | TMC realpolitik, BJP & future of ‘Gorkhaland’
4 years, 1 month ago

Shikha Mukerjee | TMC realpolitik, BJP & future of ‘Gorkhaland’

Deccan Chronicle  

Playing the politics of divisiveness by raising expectations that indeed a “permanent political solution” will be found on the demand for a separate “Gorkhaland”, carved out of West Bengal, to fulfil aspirations for a “Bas Bhoomi”, or homeland, or a heartland all Nepali-speaking Indian citizens can call their own, is a signal that the West Bengal Assembly polls, due before …

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'Friend' Bimal Gurung's Exit from NDA Will Impact Next Year's Bengal Election Results, Says BJP MP John Barla
4 years, 2 months ago

'Friend' Bimal Gurung's Exit from NDA Will Impact Next Year's Bengal Election Results, Says BJP MP John Barla

News 18  

Days after Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leader Bimal Gurung broke his ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party and extended his support to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the upcoming 2021 West Bengal Assembly Polls, several BJP leaders from the state along with national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya reached New Delhi and held a meeting with Union home minister Amit Shah on …

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Bimal Gurung Supporting Mamata and its Impact in Upcoming Assembly Poll in Bengal
4 years, 2 months ago

Bimal Gurung Supporting Mamata and its Impact in Upcoming Assembly Poll in Bengal

News 18  

It was a clear day and the Kanchenjunga was at its best under the cobalt blue sky. Miles away in Kolkata, as the clock ticked to 6.30pm, the political temperatures had risen considerably with Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leader Bimal Gurung announcing his support for Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee for next year’s West Bengal assembly polls. Our demand for a …

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Who is Bimal Gurung and How Can He Help TMC Win 2021 WB Elections?
4 years, 2 months ago

Who is Bimal Gurung and How Can He Help TMC Win 2021 WB Elections?

The Quint  

After an uneasy relationship with the Left government, when Mamata Banerjee came to power in 2011, Gurung found an opportunity to enter into a truce with the government by signing the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration. After the violent agitation in 2017 when Gurung went ‘missing’, Mamata Banerjee was successful in splitting the GJM after Gurung’s close aide Bimal Tamang broke away …

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